Jo Jewell

The case for investment in nutritional interventions to prevent and reduce childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity in Peru: a modelling study

María Elena Ugaz, Christina L. Meyer, Angela Jackson‐Morris, Daphne Wu et autres

BACKGROUND: Between 2006 and 2016 the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents aged 5-19 years in Peru increased from 22.7 to 27.0%. This investment case quantifies the economic impacts of childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity in Peru. It …

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The development of a method for the global health community to assess the proportion of food and beverage companies’ sales that are derived from unhealthy foods

Lauren Bandy, Jo Jewell, Madison Luick, Mike Rayner et autres

CONTEXT: Corporate engagement with food and beverage companies who produce food associated with health harms is a divisive topic in the global nutrition community, with high-profile cases of conflict of interest increasingly coming under scrutiny. There is a need for an agreed …

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Prevention of childhood overweight and obesity in Mongolia, the Philippines and Vietnam: identifying priority actions

Болормаа Норов, Cherry Cristobal-Maramag, Hoàng Văn Minh, Khương Quỳnh Long et autres

Low- and middle-income countries are increasingly faced with a triple burden of malnutrition: endemic underweight, micronutrient deficiencies and rising prevalence of overweight. This study aimed to address existing knowledge gaps and to identify priority policy options in Mongolia, the Philippines and Vietnam. …

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Investment case for the prevention and reduction of childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity in Mexico

Mauro Brero, Christina L. Meyer, Angela Jackson‐Morris, Garrison Spencer et autres

Despite efforts to curb the rise in Mexico's child and adolescent overweight and obesity rates, prevalence in Mexico has grown by 120% since 1990 to 43.3% in 2022. This investment case identifies policies that will produce the largest returns for Mexico. The …

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Estimating the health impacts of sugar-sweetened beverage tax for informing policy decisions about the obesity burden in Vietnam

Thuy Nguyen, Dao S, Phuong Hong, Quang Dinh Nguyen et autres

BACKGROUND: Taxation on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been adopted in more than 40 countries but remained under discussion in Vietnam. This study aimed to estimate the health impacts of different SSBs tax plans currently under discussion to provide an evidence base to …

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Children’s exposure to television advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages across four countries of WHO European Region

А. V. Kontsevaya, А. Э. Имаева, Yu. А. Balanova, João Breda et autres

OBJECTIVE: To compare the frequency and healthfulness of foods being advertised to children and adolescents in four countries of WHO European region. DESIGN: Cross-sectional quantitative study, guided by an adapted version of the WHO protocol. All recorded food advertisements were categorised by …

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Healthy weight in childhood

Oliver Huse, Tim Lobstein, Jo Jewell, Sarah Zahr et autres

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Weight stigma among adolescents in three low- and middle-income countries

Ishu Kataria, Angela Jackson‐Morris, Jo Jewell, D’Arcy Williams et autres

Background: Overweight (OW) and obesity affect millions of adolescents worldwide. Evidence from high-income countries indicates widespread weight stigma that adversely affects young people's mental and physical health. However, evidence relating to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is sparse. We aimed to generate …

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Estimating the health impacts of sugar-sweetened beverage tax for informing policy decisions about the obesity burden in Vietnam

Thuy Nguyen, Dao S, Phuong Hong, Quang Dinh Nguyen et autres

ABSTRACT Background Considered a “best buy” intervention to cope with the obesity burden, a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been adopted in more than 40 countries. In Vietnam, a tax on SSBs has been proposed several times (most recently in 2017). …

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Investing in early nutrition and food systems for human and planetary health

Jenna Hollis, Sandro Demaio, Wai Yew Yang, Laura Trijsburg et autres

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What is a “high” prevalence of obesity? Two rapid reviews and a proposed set of thresholds for classifying prevalence levels

Tim Lobstein, Jo Jewell

Categories such as "low" and "high" have been used for several decades to describe the prevalence of stunting and wasting in populations of children aged under 5 years. They provide support for public health risk assessment and policy-making, including alerting health departments …

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Rising to the challenge: Introducing protocols to monitor food marketing to children from the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Mimi Tatlow‐Golden, Jo Jewell, Olga Zhiteneva, Kremlin Wickramasinghe et autres

Unhealthy marketing has been unequivocally linked to children's food preferences, requests, purchases and eating behaviors and hence to childhood obesity. Regulating children's exposure to such marketing has been identified as a key challenge to which States must rise. Regulation mandates the need …

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